Sure, with some onions & a nice Chianti (I know, I know, the joke is overused). I really can not imagine many things that would be likely to make me gag more than trying to eat my own placenta. Perhaps encapsulated, it would be fine, but raw, no thanks. I have no issues with people doing it, but definitely not for this kid. My doula offered to do the encapsulation for me and I turned her down. But I might give it a whirl next time. The whole burying it under a tree thing is so not my style. And I think my husband would seriously consider leaving if I tried to make him help me. I was happy to have mine go off to the hospital incinerator. I'm a bit of a hippie but not that hippie.

yuck! I would not ever eat my placenta! My doctor actually asked me if I would because I am kind of a hippie at heart but yuck.. no thanx! We were planning on burying it under a tree (no not with the ceremony, thats just weird. I just thought it strange to have my placenta cremated with the other discarded body parts :p) But in the stress of an emergency c-section the placenta was forgotten :D

I looked into the benefits of it further and cost depending I am thinking about encapsulating(sp) it after my next baby. I suffered from Anemia during my first pregnancy and still suffer from it. I could used the added energy to and I have a history of depression, so all of those things are making me consider it. But who knows, I may feel completely disgusted at the thought of it once I become pregnant!

I agree, we are like animals, evolved as Sharon said. I like doing certain things like animals... lol. Eating of my own flesh is definitely NOT one of them. BLECH. Especially after the way that Lea described it... that just made me want to puke up my dinner... EEEEWWWW.

There is no way I could eat it. If I wasn't a vegetarian I do think I probably have taken it in capsule form. I never thought about using it as fertilizer; would have totally used it for that! My plants need all the help they can get :( lol

I'm a pretty scientifically minded person and they showed me mine after I gave birth. I couldn't help but be grossed out. It was huge! And purple and looked like a million periods. So what does it taste like? I don't see how anyone could eat it. I could never eat my period blood how could I possibly eat this. Maybe if I was starving and for survival.

When my son was born I hadn't even thought of the placenta and the doctor took my sons father away from us (literally minutes after giving birth) to show him the placenta and explain what it was and what it did, he listened intently and nodded his head and then he said something along the lines of "this is all well and good, but you see that (pointed to me and our son), that's what I'm here to see... not... this... (pointed at the placenta) thanks though!" and came back over to us and whispered "That nearly made me barf, I never want to smell that smell ever again..."

I posted about this on an earlier topic. It's called "Placentophagy" and apparently lots of mammals, including maby humans, practice is. I believe it has all sorts of goodies, but you wouldn't get me eating it!

Ahh, my favorite topic! :) I even started a topic about it on Welcome to Circle of Moms a couple months ago, it was so interesting to see the responses!

I was initially grossed out when I heard about this. But after doing research, I decided to do placenta encapsulation, where a doula takes the placenta and dries it, then crushes it up into pills. As stated there are so many benefits, the two I'm most interested in is increase in energy and help with battling PPD (which I get pretty badly). I am also hoping to breastfeed this time so an increase in milk supply could be good, however some people argue that ingesting too much placenta can hinder (sorry if that's not the right word) the milk supply. I am very excited to try this out! But I don't think I could EVER eat it... it's compared to eating liver, which I absolutely HATE!